I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
LORD BYRONWhy I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I learned to love despair.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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